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Wed. 2/8/12 9:13am
Nathan:
Santorum is really going for it. I'm worried he might get a bit chaffed before this show is even finished let alone the election. He's come from behind with some stiff competition...

Wed. 2/8/12 9:14am
glenn:
rick at his best - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js3BYcHmBhE

Wed. 2/8/12 9:16am
The Capitols:
We know a cat who can really do the cool jerk.

Wed. 2/8/12 9:28am
Caryn:
On a related note, my favourite recent dumbass Tea Party idea is their attempt to remove mentions of slavery from school textbooks. Apparently, it was a really minor historical detail and harping on it is a plot to make the founding fathers look bad... And here I thought Texas' "let's focus on the positive side of slavery" stupidity was an isolated case.

Wed. 2/8/12 9:31am
Lizardner Dave:
I would like to exchange money for the Jonathan Kane live record but the Internet keeps sending me to the one track on FMA. Can anyone tell me how to purchase this record with real money? Thanks.

Wed. 2/8/12 9:31am
Mark:
I sense a hands theme

Wed. 2/8/12 9:31am
anne:
good morning Ken and all!

Wed. 2/8/12 9:32am
Caryn:
A show of hands for the hands theme?

Wed. 2/8/12 9:32am
glenn:
or a disembodiment theme.

Wed. 2/8/12 9:33am
pierre:
@Mark : i was about to say that exactly, high five !

Wed. 2/8/12 9:44am
Mark:
but if you have an adorable 11 year give the finger in a movie you can nominated for an academy award as in "The Descendants"

Wed. 2/8/12 9:45am
phagawi:
that's digitis impeuticus

Wed. 2/8/12 9:46am
Lizardner Dave:
Issue Project Room website doesn't appear to have it, Kane's MySpace doesn't appear to have it, Table of the Elements MySpace doesn't appear to have it, FMA has the one free track and a PICTURE OF THE ALBUM FERCRYINOUTLOUD but no link to purchase. CD Baby, Amazon, Newbury Comics, nobody wants my money.

Wed. 2/8/12 9:46am
Caryn:
@MK: yeah, today's show is all about the hands and about things being erect. The Santorum gif brings the two ideas together.

Wed. 2/8/12 9:48am
fcunmys:
Yenta GaGa On Steroids????

Wed. 2/8/12 9:49am
MD:
The Steam shovel that John Henry left in the
basement of WFMU...that was converted to a
furnace was not feeling well this morn...????

Wed. 2/8/12 9:49am
Caryn:
Dammit, my Yenta GaGa line was taken while my net connection was busy crashing 3 times in a row...

Wed. 2/8/12 9:49am
glenn:
i'll take your money.

Wed. 2/8/12 9:49am
Sam:
Hey teachers, teach us what you know! How lame!!

Wed. 2/8/12 9:50am
BSI:
........oh dear....

Wed. 2/8/12 9:50am
Sam:
Hey, preacher, leave those jews alone!

Wed. 2/8/12 9:51am
fcunmys:
Where's Al Jolson when you need him?

Wed. 2/8/12 9:51am
still b/p:
This is true oppression. Let us people go.

Wed. 2/8/12 9:57am
pierre:
— what is the name of that type of sandwich that is pierced by a rainbow on the playlist?

Wed. 2/8/12 9:57am
fofo:
pierre, it's called (Tex-Mex) Taco.

Wed. 2/8/12 9:57am
Sam:
It's a taco! I know, they don't have those in France

Wed. 2/8/12 9:57am
fofo:
pierre, it's called (Tex-Mex) Taco.

Wed. 2/8/12 9:58am
Robert:
I came in about a quarter after 9. What was the confusion I missed?

Wed. 2/8/12 9:58am
Lizardner Dave:
@glenn - that takes me to all the other records but I don't see "Live at the Issue Project Room". Thanks for the link though, that's one site I had forgotten to check.

Wed. 2/8/12 9:58am
dc pat:
in the US we call that a taco. In mexico, they call that American food.

Wed. 2/8/12 9:59am
Cecile:
The younger bro of a friend of mine who grew up very Catholic in western PA brought his HS classmate Rick Santorum home after school years ago. My friend says "My mom likes everyone. She really doesn't like Rick Santorum."

Wed. 2/8/12 9:59am
pierre:
Oh, ok, thanks fofo. That what i thought but i wanted to be sure.

Wed. 2/8/12 9:59am
Sam:
As soon as you take a bite of it, the shell will break and everything will fall onto your lap. Great fun.

Wed. 2/8/12 10:00am
fcunmys:
Pierre - It's also known as The Dark Side of The Cholupa

Wed. 2/8/12 10:00am
Ken From Hyde Park:
There's a fast-food chain here called Taco Bell that has a variety of nutritious and healthy taco-related items at a reasonable price.

Wed. 2/8/12 10:00am
cinema non vigo:
Ritual in Transfigured Time, 1946. Maya Deren
"Deren incorporates representational performance art into abstract, non-nararrative filmmaking through intersecting currents of subconscious, parallel realities, revealing the film's tone and intrinsic logic through the choreography of organic bodies in performance of ritual, and in the process, creates a haunting and sublime exposition on the spatial (rather than linear) dimensionality of time, synchronicity, and the potentiality of fate."

Wed. 2/8/12 10:00am
Robert:
Specifically, it's a hard taco. The shell is made from corn (maize) and is as brittle as matzo but even thinner. You bite it, the shell breaks and spills the contents all over your lap.

Wed. 2/8/12 10:00am
pierre:
@Sam: It can resist rainbows, but it's no match for american teeth.
;)

Wed. 2/8/12 10:02am
Robert:
Damn, I'm redundant with Sam! I do not like that, Sam, I am...vexed.

Wed. 2/8/12 10:02am
fofo:
hey, I just noticed when you f*cked up the math question your post goes twice.

Wed. 2/8/12 10:03am
Sam:
You have to do a literature review of past comments before venturing your own comment. That's the hard truth.

Wed. 2/8/12 10:03am
fcunmys:
Johnny Preston Rest In Peace!

Wed. 2/8/12 10:04am
fofo:
hey, I just noticed when you f*cked up the math question your post goes twice.

Wed. 2/8/12 10:04am
pierre:
@ Robert : two point of views (even when they match) are always a pleasure to read. To me, it says that you share Tacos experiences.

Wed. 2/8/12 10:07am
dc pat:
hmm. the refresh of the playlist keeps dumping me at the top too.

Wed. 2/8/12 10:07am
Bruce:
There's a little cafe...where guys with stiff epaulets play guitar all night and all day.

Wed. 2/8/12 10:08am
Cecile:
I f'ing love Taco Bell.
It's not authentic at all, but tasty.
I also love the tacos you can get at Mexican joints. They are not crispy at all. mmmm. tacos.

Wed. 2/8/12 10:08am
dc pat:
Neg-guh-tor: wrong.

Wed. 2/8/12 10:08am
pierre:
the closest thing i had that matched a Taco was nachos crisps in Scotland with sour cream guacamole, tomato bits, cheese… anyway that's what i imagine as being close to a Taco. Mexican restaurant are not very very common in France, or maybe i didn't really search for a good one… New goal of the day !

Wed. 2/8/12 10:09am
Cecile:
I actually like this Leonard Cohen CD. I'm surprised as you are.

the best food on Earth is the chili dog. Tacos, pizza and Kraft Macaroni and cheese with the squishy silver packet are very close.

Wed. 2/8/12 10:09am
fcunmys:
Tacos! Tacos! Taco! That's all I ever hear from you people. Why not enchiladas for a change?

Wed. 2/8/12 10:09am
Mark:
hey Ken from Hyde Park we have Taco Bell here too! Who would have thought?

Wed. 2/8/12 10:09am
BSI:
I can safely say that, despite my apparent "american-ness," never has a taco passed these BSI lips. It just seems like a terrible idea, engineering-wise.

Wed. 2/8/12 10:10am
Sam:
Ironically the closest thing you can get to mexican food in France is some half-baked Scottish imitation of an american imitation of the mexican original.

Wed. 2/8/12 10:10am
dale:
if i read one more review that says leonard cohen is in his finest voice i'll jump over a cliff. hate the background singers and cheesy little paris bistro sounding productions. rick rubin should pay him a visit on his next rekkid

Wed. 2/8/12 10:10am
Robert:
Taco Bell (as well as Fresh Tortillas, Fresco Taco, etc.) were late iin coming to New York. It seems to have spread from west to east.

Wed. 2/8/12 10:11am
moo:
hard-shelled tacos aren't really tacos but they're tasty, especially when grease-softened, and remind me of when i was a kid. when they break apart they become 'taco salad.' real tacos are soft- i believe these hard shells are a pretty recent invention

Wed. 2/8/12 10:11am
Cecile:
I don't think he's in his finest voice. But I don't want to punch myself in the face while I'm listening to him, which already makes it better.

Wed. 2/8/12 10:11am
pierre:
I do love a Veal's head from time to time "sauce gribiche" s'il vous plaît !!!

Wed. 2/8/12 10:12am
Neg-guh-tor:
La lengua?

Wed. 2/8/12 10:12am
dc pat:
New Mexico food is the best Mexican-influenced food though. I have Mexican friends and they're always making tacos and they're the best things on earth.

Wed. 2/8/12 10:12am
BSI:
@Cecile: burritos are fair game. But Tucson taught me to love a decent working-class green-corn tamale. Mexican-style, not central-american style like we get in the shops over here.

Wed. 2/8/12 10:14am
Robert:
BSI, they are mal-engineered, but there's also the soft taco, made with a thin soft (wheat) flour wrap. And Taco Bell has the double decker taco, an overpriced version where the soft wrapper encloses the hard taco.

Wed. 2/8/12 10:14am
still b/p:
On any occasion when distribution of cigars would traditionally be called for, Trader Joe's Black Bean and Cheese Taquitos can be substituted. Eat them, do not light them.

Wed. 2/8/12 10:14am
Cecile:
BSI, we have this great tamale place I need to go back to.
They had the masa and stuff in a banana leaf! It was like that rice in a lotus leaf you get at dim sum. Yum.

Wed. 2/8/12 10:14am
fofo:
For those people that cannot tell their chalupas from theirr tacos.

Wed. 2/8/12 10:21am
Cecile:
San Antonio has something called the puffy taco. It's a disc of masa that hits the deep fryer and bubbles up to a light crisp consistency. I want to try that.

Wed. 2/8/12 10:21am
still b/p:
Decent Mexican or Tex-Mex or any Latin American, not surprisingly, awful hard to come by in the far northeast. Some of what tries to pass is an abomination. I should try the little Salvadoran place in town again.

Wed. 2/8/12 10:22am
Neg-guh-tor:
Bill Cooper would feature Cohen song from this period on the original short wave broadcasts I used to listen to in the '90's. Creepy. Loved 'Hour of the Time'! Best radio show ever! Like 'War of the Worlds' every week.

Wed. 2/8/12 10:22am
Cecile:
it's either tacos or my thoughts on the Super Bowl halftime show and Giants win.

Wed. 2/8/12 10:23am
G:
Christgau should be talked into giving some of that Brinks truck of Microsoft loot to FMU to atone for his half century or so of parochial taste.
On second thought, he'd probably want a veto on all show content (only Christgau B+'s and above), or at least the right to add letter grades to every playlist tune.

Wed. 2/8/12 10:24am
pierre:
YEAH WIRE !!

Which one? which one ?

(please say "nice streets above")

Wed. 2/8/12 10:24am
G:
If I see one more taco post, I'm gonna decide I way overslept and this is Bryce's show

Wed. 2/8/12 10:24am
Mark:
there's still a Robert Christgau phenomenon?

Wed. 2/8/12 10:25am
Mike East:
The wife and I had a date planned to go out last Saturday for tacos and margaritas to some place in Bloomfield...then it got late, I got tired, and we settled for Baja Fresh and a bottle of Sauza. I think I'm getting old.

Wed. 2/8/12 10:32am
dc pat:
man, no offense but fast Mexican food is puke. I know you have limited options in some spots in the US so I'd probably be going to fast food joints too, but...if you live anywhere near Latinos, you should be ok. Bonus: worst Mex food I've ever had, Johnstown, PA.

Wed. 2/8/12 10:32am
G:
Is this the Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego Trio?

Wed. 2/8/12 10:35am
Vivian:
The worst mexican food I had was in Oklahoma City. It could have been the margarita which was too sweet. It tasted as if they used a base consisted of crushed pez candy.

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Wed. 2/8/12 10:35am
Ken:
Then Evan for correcting me incorrectly, i shall play TWO tracks from the "Whole Lotta Love:" An All-Star Salute to Fat Chicks" compilation.

Wed. 2/8/12 10:35am
Mike East:
I saw Foghat at a street festival in Baltimore a bunch of years ago. They seemed very pleased with themselves.

Wed. 2/8/12 10:35am
Cecile:
yeah, Nathan. Foghat Live is not a good record.

Wed. 2/8/12 10:35am
Dan B From Upstate:
We've got two wonderful mexican restaurants in town, one is California inspired, the other is tex-mex inspired. When I want authentic, I go to the tex-mex place for tacos al carbon. Delicious! When I want a burrito larger than my head, I go to the California inspired place. When I want to damage my insides, I go to taco bell.

Wed. 2/8/12 10:35am
Cecile:
Dan B that seems a good route to go.

Wed. 2/8/12 10:37am
Cecile:
Ken, just play the real AC/DC version of Whole Lotta Rosie.

Wed. 2/8/12 11:03am
Cecile:
for the first time in over a week, the beta stream is working.

Wed. 2/8/12 11:03am
still b/p:
You could try a different browser later. In Chrome, if I'm scrolled to the bottom of the playlist, as far as the slider will go, it will return there upon refresh. If the slider is even just a little above the bottom, refresh bumps me to the top.
Tried Firefox and it's going to top regardless.

Wed. 2/8/12 11:05am
Caryn:
Liking the ISS gif.

Wed. 2/8/12 11:05am
G:
@fofo -- the make-a-comment area does not autorefresh (I believe it did, several years ago). But the existing comment area and playlist both autorefresh, just at different points (staggered) over the course of a minute or so. First the playlist refreshes, then the existing posted comments do. Lather, rinse, repeat. :-)

Wed. 2/8/12 11:07am
Caryn:
h in front of the k, Ken: Keuhkot.

Wed. 2/8/12 11:07am
Mark:
aw man you removed the Santorum gif?

Wed. 2/8/12 11:08am
G:
In Disposed? Where is Disposed, exactly? The trashbin?

Wed. 2/8/12 11:08am
fofo:
I thinking that maybe today's auto-update feature is refreshing automatically and not when Ken adds a row in the playlists.

Wed. 2/8/12 11:20am
Mark:
I hope none of the complainers are using Internet Explorer as their browser

Wed. 2/8/12 11:22am
fofo:
earwax,

Better yet earwax tasting of taco. That way we'd all be self-sufficient.

Wed. 2/8/12 11:23am
G:
The autorefreshing is happening on your browser in your home/office, not on Ken's end. It's on a timer, and it checks for possible new content by totally reloading the page. It does not "know" if there's new content until each reload is completed. Sometimes it reloads a changed page, and sometimes it reloads a still-identical page.

Computer capacities keep improving (CPU, etc.), so in a year or two this issue will disappear, as long as people do not keep using "antique" computers that are three or four years old. :-)

Wed. 2/8/12 11:24am
Ken From Hyde Park:
I had the refresh problem with Firefox and flipped to IE and that's also giving me the same issue.

Wed. 2/8/12 11:25am
BSI:
Ah, there was a real question back there.

Yep, performance on this machine slowed to a crawl but better now that Santorum is out of the picture. So to speak. ...
nothing to add to the refresh conversation though. Nothing seems different in that respect.